Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:47:42 +0100 From: Paul van der Zwan <paulz@trantor.xs4all.nl> To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: Paul van der Zwan <paulz@trantor.xs4all.nl>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, john_wilson100@excite.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, paulz@trantor.xs4all.nl Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum? Message-ID: <200111112147.fABLlgj10123@trantor.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Message from S ren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:42:17 %2B0100." <200111112142.fABLgHW77454@freebsd.dk>
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In message <200111112142.fABLgHW77454@freebsd.dk>, S ren Schmidt wrote: >It seems Paul van der Zwan wrote: >> Well, currently there are some minor glitches. I just installed a vinu= m slic >e >> on /dev/ar0s1 and unless I do a 'vinum read /dev/ar0s1' vinum will not= >> find the volumes. This causes the boot of my box ( -current btw) to fa= il >> at the mount of my filesystems. = > >You dont need to mix ar and vinum devices, why do you want to run a >SW RAID ontop of a SW RAID ? I bought the mobo with a promise controller to get some extra IDE channel= s but unfortunately I cannot get it to just pass on the channels. I need to= make a raid volume to make the box continue booting past the BIOS. But I don't want a big 80 gig slice, I want to use vinum to create a numb= er of smaller volumes , possibly more than disklabel will allow and at least ea= sier and possibly safer than relabeling a disk with data on it. So I just want= = volumes consisting of a single plex nothing fancy, no raid 0, 1 or 5. > >> Is there a way to tell vinum to also look on /dev/ar* for its config ?= ? > >Nope, not yet, and it will only solve part of your problem... What problem have I not noticed yet ?? The not reading the config is the = only = one I have found sofar. Paul -- = Paul van der Zwan paulz @ trantor.xs4all.nl "I think I'll move to theory, everything works in theory..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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